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Mansfield plans three musical events

The Mansfield University Jazz Festival will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Steadman Theatre.

The college's music department will present the 2015 winners of the annual Student Solo Competition in concert with the MU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jeff Jacobsen, at 2:30 p.m. in Steadman Theatre.

The Mansfield University Brass Bandunder the direction of Nathan Rinnert, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Steadman Theatre.

All three events are free and open to the public.

Jazz Festival

The festival will include two concerts, one featuring instrumental jazz on Thursday and the other highlighting vocal jazz on Friday.

The MU Jazz Ensemble, under the director of Adam Brennan, will headline the Vocal Jazz Festival Concert on Thursday. The concert will also feature one of the high school bands participating in the Festival. That band will be selected by the festival adjudicators.

On Friday, The Mansfieldians, directed by Sheryl Monkelien, and guest artist Peter Eldridge will take center stage at Steadman Theatre for the Vocal Jazz Festival Concert.

The Mansfieldians are fresh off their participation in the 2015 New York City Jazz Festival, which included a performance at the Apollo Theatre, earlier this month.

Peter Eldridge is a founding member of the vocal group New York Voices, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. They have recorded eight albums, including New York Voices Live with the WDR Big Band Cologne and Let it Snow, both released in 2013.

During the two days of the Festival, which is now in its 33rd year, the guest artists and adjudicators will interact with MU and high school students in a series of clinics and workshops.

The MU Jazz Festival is sponsored by the Mansfield University Music Department. The Jazz Ensemble and Mansfieldians are supported in part by student activity fees.

The program will also include the orchestra performing Mark Dal Porto's "Song of Eternity."

Brass Band

The Mansfield University Brass Band took second place in the third section of the North American Brass Band Championships (NABBA) in Fort Wayne, Ind., last month. It was the ensemble's first ever competition.

Formed in the spring of 2006, Mansfield's is the only British-style university brass band in Pennsylvania.

The concert program will include contest pieces, along with other brass band repertoire, solos and chamber ensembles.

The brass band performs everything from polkas and marches to more contemporary, advanced selections on traditional British brass band instruments; cornets/flugelhorn, alto horns, baritones, euphoniums, trombones, E-flat & B-flat tubas, and percussion. The MUBB also places a focus on performing historical American brass band repertoire from the late 19th century.